Michelle Hendricks’s Reviews > Sometimes I Lie > Status Update

Claire said her parents didn’t love her; I don’t know if that’s true. There are different kinds of love - one word could never accurately describe them all. Some are easier to feel than others, some are more dangerous. People say there’s nothing like a mother’s love - take that away and you’ll find there is nothing like a daughter’s hate.

Madeline thinks it must be food poisoning. I think it is far more likely to be the laxatives I put in her coffee just before we went on air. She’s a no fit state to drive herself home so I offer. She sleeps as I drive and I decide I like her a lot better like this. Silenced. The poison is trapped inside her while she sleeps, opposed to sipping from her lips when she is awake.